This page offers a selection of links to videos that demonstrate how self-driving cars work. Links to longer lectures are pre-cued to the time where the cool demos are shown.
- How Does It Work? Autonomous Car. A short (3 minutes) animation by Thomas Schwenke that explains the basics of self-driving cars.
- How Self-Driving Cars Work, David Silver, TEDxWilmingtonSalon. Start at 1:30 into this 9 minute video to get a nice technical (but totally accessible) overview of self-driving cars.
- Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road. A 15.5 minute video by Google’s Chris Urmson, but skip ahead to 7:49 to get to the good stuff.
- Waymo 360° Experience: A Fully Autonomous Driving Journey. A 3.5 minute video by Waymo explaining how their self-driving car works and giving a view from inside.
- Nuro R2 delivering Dominos pizzas. A 2.5 minute video by Nuro of their R2 delivery robot navigating around Mountain View, Houston, and Phoenix, and showing its perceptual processing and map representation.
Bonus Resource
How Do Self-Driving Cars Work? page at InterestingEngineering.com has lots of informative diagrams as well as a good technical discussion.